Since Columbine massacre, more than a million lives changed for the better While the national spotlight moved on, the shooting of Columbine High School student Cassie Bernall on April 20, 1999 continues to quietly impact thousands of lives through her mother’s book She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall. In the years since the massacre that took their only daughter’s life, Misty and Brad Bernall’s courageous efforts to turn tragedy to good - by sharing Cassie’s own hard-earned triumph over confusion and rebellion - have been rewarded beyond their greatest expectations. Their book, a New York Times bestseller, has sold over a million copies. Cassie’s famous last word at gunpoint echoed around the globe, and her simple act of faith and bravery sparked a teenage spiritual revival. But She Said Yes tells the story of Cassie’s troubled adolescence, when she was heading down a path similar to that of her killers, before the intervention of her parents and peers helped her turn around. As the New York Post writes, “It’s hard to find a book that so plainly and powerfully provides families with wisdom for surviving conflict with their souls and sanity intact...It’s a profoundly human story that should be read by every parent and every teen.” In February 2000, Misty Bernall was presented the coveted Christopher Award, which honors authors “whose work expresses the highest values of the human spirit.” The award is given annually by The Christophers, a organization that encourages people to recognize their personal power and their responsibility to make a positive difference. Their motto is: “It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.” She Said Yes has been one such candle. The book, which People Magazine called “a poignant wake-up call to parents,” has encouraged hundreds of thousands of parents to get more involved in their teenagers’ lives. And, if the thousands of responses received on the Bernalls' website are any indication, it has inspired at least as many teenagers to make their lives and relationships count. One woman was so challenged by Cassie’s story that she decided to start an orphanage in Honduras, which opened officially on April 20, 2000 as The Cassie Bernall Home for Children. Dutch, German, Italian, Korean, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Slovak, Romanian and Spanish translations of She Said Yes are already in print, with others on the way. An unabridged audio version has been recorded in Misty Bernall’s own voice.